This is a past event
A free lecture by Nikolaos Anagnostou, SgurrEnergy Ltd, organised by the Aberdeen Scottish-Hellenic Society, as part of the King's Museum lecture programme
Nikolaos Anagnostou was born and raised in the city of Arta, in Epirus, a periphery located in the north west of Greece. Like Scotland, Epirus is rugged and verdant. It borders the peripheries of Macedonia and Thessaly to the east, Central Greece to the south, the Ionian Sea to the west, and Albania to the North.
He studies at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, graduating with a MEng in Electrical and Computer Engineering, with a specialisation in power engineering. Nikolaos Anagnostou continued his studies in Glasgow, at the University of Strathclyde, graduating with an MSc with distinction in Computer and Internet Technologies. Somehow, he also managed to go from one of wettest parts of Greece to one of the wettest parts of the UK. He tends to think of it as karma.
While being torn between electrical engineering and computer science as possible career paths, Nik found a job with SgurrEnergy, an engineering consultancy specialising in renewable energy, where he has been working as an electrical engineer for the past seven and a half years. He is glad to be working in an industry that is helping to save the planet.
His fascination with the ancient world and its technology still holds strong. So far, he has given talks on three topics, namely the Antikythera Mechanism, the Parthenon, and the Tunnel of Eupalinos. He is hoping to study Stonehenge next.
- Speaker
- Nikolaos Anagnostou, SgurrEnergy Ltd
- Hosted by
- Aberdeen Scottish-Hellenic Society
- Venue
- New King's 10